To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest lev….

And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken..

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, an….

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden ….

Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many….

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone..

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth..

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!.

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting..

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the m….

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?.

Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithet….

I prefer true over happy now..

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of t….

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain..

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me..

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified..

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping i….

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life..

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a spec….